(f)[ "instrument of transfer" means the instrument of transfer registered under the Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), or, as the case may be, the statement registered under section 269-AB with the competent authority;] [ Substituted by Act 22 of 1981, Section 2, for Clauses (f) and (h) (w.e.f. 1.7.1982).]